Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO), which F-Secure is a member of, had a meeting in Helsinki in May. During that meeting AMTSO members approved two new guidelines to be published

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New AMTSO guidelines

Malicious JavaScript code used to be contained in single .JS or .HTML files, which made malicious JavaScript analysis and detection pretty straightforward. However, in the past few days, a couple of distinct Web compromises caught my attention because the codes involved used the multipart malicious JavaScript technique. In this technique, malicious JavaScript codes can be divided into multiple parts to make up different files.

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Increased Use of MultiPart Malicious JavaScripts in the Wild

An addition to the roster of digital devices that have been shipped with malware, Samsung, too, seems to have accidentally distributed malware along with the new Bada-powered Samsung S8500 Wave smartphone. It has been reported that the 1GB microSD cards included with the mobile phone units shipped to Germany contain preinstalled Windows-based malware.

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Infected S8500 Wave Phones Make it to Germany

Cybercriminals have found yet another way to grab users’ attention. This time, they posed as members of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from Washington D.C.

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419 Scam Resurfaces with FBI Spam

Today is the last day of May and for some people, the last day their Facebook accounts are available online.

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Is It Time to Quit Facebook?

Early this year, the SASFIS Trojan became notorious in relation to spoofed email messages supposedly from Facebook .

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SASFIS Malware Uses a New Trick

The TDSS malware family in itself is already a big threat to users . Known for its rootkit capabilities, TDSS constantly evolves to include more sophisticated means in order to hide its presence in an affected system. The Mebroot malware family, on the other hand, is noted for inflicting master boot record (MBR) infections.

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Mebroot Variant Behaves Like TDSS

TrendLabs SM engineers recently discovered a new Skype spam campaign. The spam arrives as a message from a user’s list of contacts

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Spam Sends Malicious Links to Skype Users

A Twitter bot builder is currently being freely distributed on the Internet with the capability to attack users’ systems and to have some fun at the same time. It may, however, act as a threat when an attacker uses the tool to start a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) on critical systems and to download malicious files

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Your Tweet Is My Command

A new spam campaign has been discovered spoofing job-application-related emails. While most spammed messages have been known to take advantage of a specific occasion, a holiday, or even a currently newsworthy item, spammers have hit a new low with this scheme

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CV Spam Comes with a Malicious Attachment